Can't manually add music anymore

I always manage my music manually, never synced. Only my podcasts are synced...oh and an iphoto album.
Anyway, I decided to sync a playlist in my itunes that I constantly change. It ended up erasing my entire ipod. OK, stupid me, I didn't know how it works. Fine.
I then went to the iPod's MUSIC tab and unchecked the Sync Music button. It went and re-erased everything again. Fine. I synced my podcasts again and decided to just manually put all my music back. Now it won't do it. It's like the iPod's locked or something. I drag the music like I've always done, but it just bounces back to the iTunes library and won't go onto the iPod Touch.
I looked and looked, but there doesn't appear to be anything locking it. It's my ipod on my computer, just like it's always been. The SYNC MUSIC button is UNCHECKED.
Any ideas would be really good right about now.

I seem to have this problem as well, but I have had that box checked the whole time. I recently changed computers, so I'm unsure whether that would affect it but I have a lot of music I would like on my iPod but can't without deleting my existing music

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But when I drag music onto my phone in the sidebar, instead of getting the "+", at which point the device shows the spinning "synch" circle, I get a grey crossed out circle - the international symbol for "NO".
My phone has space on it.
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